Cloudside Café - Chapter 17

Love is everything beautiful.

But marriage is not. In the face of reality, feelings are the fastest consumable.

“After giving birth to my brother, my mother was in a state of depression for a long time. They divorced not long afterwards. When the procedures were completed, my dad wanted to leave me and said that he planned to stay in school and take the students. , I will reduce my time out in the future. I remember that my mother was very calm at the time, so she said one sentence:’I quarreled so many with you, I just want you to accompany me and my child more. Why wait for the divorce? It has become so easy to achieve.’”

Jiang Ying didn’t know what to say to comfort him, so he could only hold his hand and rub the back of his hand with his fingertips.

“I don’t blame my dad, he has his dreams and ambitions. He has been to many places, and every time he brings back various souvenirs to tell my brother and me what he has learned along the way. But he is indeed not a qualified father since he was a child. I’ve never been to my parent’s conference once, and I don’t even know which class I’m in.”

Yunxian picked up a pan-fried bun on Jiang Ying’s plate and said to Jiang Ying, “You should be in agreement with my dad. You all like to run around the world.”

Jiang Ying chewed on the crispy dough and said, “It’s so boring to stay in your own circle, not to mention there are so many interesting places in this world.”

Yun Xian nodded in approval: “That’s right.”

“What about your mother, how is she now?”

“Very good, still teaching at school.”

“Then she is a very strict kind of teacher? My high school Chinese teacher is very fierce. I still remember how she taught people.”

Yun Xian raised her eyebrows: “Anyway, as far as I know, her students are quite afraid of her.”

Jiang Ying let out a cry, muttering “That’s over.”

Yunxian didn’t know what to say for a while, so he raised his hand and clicked on her forehead: “I’m worried about the relationship between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law now?”

Jiang Ying clutched his forehead and denied: “Why!”

“You really don’t have to worry about that. If she knows that I’m in love, she’ll have to give you up.”

Jiang Ying glared at him, only as if he was telling a joke.

But after thinking about it, she and Yun Xian just started dating, and seeing their parents is still a long time away, and now I am worried that it is really unnecessary.

The brief worries soon ended, Jiang Ying took a sip of the red bean porridge, and the sweetness spread on the tip of his tongue-it is more important to enjoy the moment.

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When Li Zhicheng was finally ready to leave work, Jiang Ying felt as if she was seventeen years old in an instant. The first math class in the morning was long and boring. She pinched the watch and counted how long it would take to leave get out of class every second.

The moment the bell rang, the whole world brightened up.

“Go back to wash and wash, sleep well, everyone. It’s a hard work, everyone.” Li Zhicheng lazily condoned the employees while yawning, “When we arrive in Shanghai, please have a good meal.”

In order to cope with the summer mid-year promotion and the June comic exhibition, a total of two chapters have been updated this time. The time is tight and the tasks are heavy. In addition, there are many places that need to be modified and adjusted based on player feedback. By the time everything is finalized on this day, the entire office has already been squeezed out to a single drop.

Zhou Qingqing couldn’t hold it, and fell asleep directly on the table. Jiang Ying covered her with a blanket and packed her things to get off work.

It was only ten o’clock in the morning, and after an all-nighter, she was sleepy. Although the fatigue could not be relieved, she was still awake.

When she walked to the cloud, Su Cheng was squatting at the door to smoke.

“Why are you here?” Jiang Ying asked him.

“Sister, why are you here?” Su Cheng saw her, immediately got up, took off the cigarette that was in his mouth, and looked like he had seen a ghost.

Jiang Ying looked at the store and said, “I just finished my work and want to come to your store to find something to eat.”

Su Cheng: “Oh, that’s it.”

Jiang Ying saw him standing at the door in a daze, and felt amused: “What’s the matter? Don’t let me in yet?”

“Hey, no, that, sister…” Su Cheng didn’t know how to explain, so he could only feel his hair stubble in a hurry.

Jiang Ying saw his strange look, sensitively aware of something, she closed a smile and asked him, “Where is your boss?”

“It’s inside, fighting…”

Halfway through Su Cheng’s words, an angry reprimand came from the room.

“Have you ever treated me as a person? Have you treated me as a person? Did you know that since childhood, you told Yun Mao and me that it would be fine if you were not born. How did we both feel?”

“In the past twenty years, if you are not happy, if you are not happy, have I been happy?”

“You are right, giving birth to me is the worst decision you have ever made. I think so too.”

“I am more hopeful than you, than you and your ex-husband, that there is no such person as me.”

A door and a hall were separated, but Jiang Ying didn’t hear exactly what the people in the room were saying.

But just based on the few words she caught, she seemed to have been struck by lightning, leaving her in a daze not knowing whether to advance or retreat.

The person who was erupting at this moment, roaring desperately like a trapped beast, was the gentlest existence she had encountered in more than two decades.

And she never dared to imagine that Yunxian would say something like “I hope I don’t exist”.

Su Cheng pulled Jiang Ying out, closed the door, and said in a low voice, “The boss just answered the phone, as if it was from his home. It is estimated that something has happened, and there was a quarrel without saying a word. But every time he answers the phone at home, he is not in a good mood.”

“I’ll go see him.” Jiang Ying said and was about to go in.

“Hey, sister.” Su Cheng stopped her, “you still don’t go in yet, he is upset, let him stay for a while.”

Jiang Ying opened his mouth but was speechless. She sighed heavily and hugged her arms against the door, and opened her palm to Su Cheng: “Smoke, give me one.”

Su Cheng was taken aback, took out a cigarette and a lighter from his pocket and handed it over.

Jiang Ying was about to ignite the cigarette with his cigarette in his mouth, remembering that he had said in front of Yun Xian that he was going to quit smoking, then he slapped the lid of the lighter and rubbed his hair irritably, “Forget it.”

Not long after Yunxian came out, he shouted to Su Cheng in the room: “Su Cheng, I’m going back to Beijing in the past two days. Call me if I have something to do.”

Su Cheng hurriedly responded: “Hey, good.”

Yun Xian hurriedly walked to the door, only then saw Jiang Ying who had been standing there. After the moment of the accident passed, he slowed down his displeased look, barely squeezed out a smile from the corner of his mouth, and asked her: “Why are you here?”

Jiang Ying did not answer his question, and asked directly: “Are you going back to Beijing, what happened?”

Su Cheng consciously entered the store, leaving them to speak alone.

It’s not easy to explain, Yunxian just said, “Something happened at home, and I’ll tell you later, I have to rush to the airport now and wait for my return.”

“Yun Xian.” Jiang Ying took his arm, “I will go with you.”

Seeing that he didn’t respond for a while, Jiang Ying took his hand and said: “I don’t want to interfere with your family affairs, I just want to be with you. Maybe there is a place where I can help. Me and you Let’s go together, okay?”

The gloom enveloping his body seemed to thin out all of a sudden, Yun Xian raised his hand and touched Jiang Ying’s cheek, feeling sour in his heart.

“it is good.”

It took 40 minutes to reach the airport. When Jiang Ying drove, Yun Xian kept talking to different people. The first sentence always asked “Is Yun Xian with you?”

After searching all the people in the address book, Yun Xian finally put down the phone and leaned back in the chair tiredly.

Jiang Ying glanced at him and asked, “Is my brother running away from home?”

Yunxian hummed weakly: “I’m not very good at studying recently. I quarreled with my mother. Today the teacher called and said that he didn’t go to class. I don’t know where this kid went.”

Jiang Ying comforted him: “He is so old, he knows how to measure, maybe he is tired and wants to run away for a while.”

Yun Xian rubbed his temples: “I understand.”

Yun Xian was in a bad mood, and Jiang Ying didn’t say much. They bought the latest flight hastily, and it was already more than two o’clock in the afternoon by the time they landed.

After investigating the surveillance at the gate of the community, Yun Mao walked in the opposite direction of the school in the morning, but it was very difficult to find out where he went.

This morning, Xia Zhi had two open classes in a row and had no time to look at his mobile phone. Yun Mao’s head teacher Tao thought he was ill and didn’t come to school.

Xia Zhi’s first reaction to knowing that the younger son did not attend class was to call the elder son who was also worried.

In her opinion, half of Yun Xian’s sudden rebellion was learned from Yun Xian, and Yun Xian’s inexplicable rebellion was inherited from Yun Chengfan. Escape reality if you can’t bear it, cowardly and shameful, the father and son are the same.

The mother and son quarreled after saying a few words, and they have been sitting in the police station by the same person, and no one cares about them.

Jiang Ying was standing next to Yun Xian. She was pretentious the first time she saw her parents. Now the atmosphere is embarrassing and she is even more uncomfortable.

As soon as the police couldn’t hear that it was a senior boy, he was half-hearted, and asked them, “Where does this kid usually go? I don’t want to go to class because I mostly go to the Internet cafe.”

Xia Zhi shook his head: “It’s impossible for him to go to the Internet cafe. The ID is at home and he doesn’t have a mobile phone. Where can he go?”

Yunxian calmly explained the situation to the police: “He usually stays at home and school. I contacted relatives and friends I know, and they all said that I didn’t see him. There are very few places he can go alone, and he has only a few hundred yuan in cash. , Can you check the surrounding surveillance?”

While smoking a cigarette, the policeman made a record: “It is also time-consuming to find out. Maybe he will come back by himself later.”

Jiang Ying pulled Yunxian’s sleeve and asked in a low voice, “Does he have any hobbies? For example, he likes astronomy, and he will probably go to a museum or play basketball?”

Yun Xian lowered his head and said nothing.

Jiang Ying thought he did not understand, and continued: “When he is in a bad mood, he will probably do what he likes. Maybe he just wants to find a place to vent.”

“Jiang Ying.” Yunxian finally raised his head and hit his side face and shoulders, clearly outlining his lack of sleep and the fatigue of his eyebrows, “Yun Xian, he seems to have no hobbies.”

In other words, there can be no.

Anything that has nothing to do with learning is a waste of time. What you like will be blocked by the sentence “wait until the college entrance examination is over, your main task now is to learn”. Over time, those hobbies, interests, and things that can bring pleasure will lose their original effectiveness.

In the long silence, the light shifted and Yun Xian’s whole body was in the shadow. He finally remembered that his brother used to like flying machines.

When did Yun Shao stop talking to him about space, space probes, and those terms that are far away and full of infinite charm in his eyes?

It seemed that on a weekend, Xia Zhi took the brothers to the bookstore, and Yun Mao happily took a copy of “The Vast Universe”.

The book is very thick, and the knowledge involved is professional and obscure for a seven- to eight-year-old child, but the picture alone makes Yun Qi very interested. He does not know what needs to be done behind a manned spaceflight. He just couldn’t resist the attraction from the depths of the universe.

However, Yun Mao still failed to bring home the book that he couldn’t put it down. No matter how he insisted, how he described how interesting the book was, Xia Zhi finally said, “Did the exam pass the test?” Retort.

Yun Mao did not make trouble that day, and obediently put the book back on the shelf. Xia Zhi touched his head with satisfaction, and said with a smile: “Will you take you and brother to eat pizza tonight?”

As for whether his younger brother was happy later, Yun Xian can’t remember.

Maybe you will forget about it soon, after all, it’s a child.

“Is it very pitiful?” Yunxian asked Jiang Ying dumbly, “I don’t even have anything I like.”

He seemed to be talking about Yunmao, and he seemed to be talking about himself.